After 13 Months Fallen Indian Army Soldier Gets Burial, With Full Honours

Yesterday Shakir Manzoor Wagay's father, Ahmed Wagay, told NDTV "I have identified the body... it is my son. I identified him from his feet... his hair and also a bracelet he wore"

Thirteen months and 21 days after Rifleman Shakir Manzoor was killed, the fallen soldier was given a final salute and his burial with military honours gave his father - Manzoor Ahmad Wagay - closure after a year-long search to find the body of his missing son.

Hundreds of villagers attended the funeral as the Army held a wreath-laying ceremony. There were emotional scenes as the body reached Shakir Manzoor's native village.

For more than a year his father had left home every morning with shovels and spades to dig earth in attempt to find his son's body. He always returned empty-handed.

Yesterday a decomposed body was found by villagers at a nondescript place in J&K's Kulgam area.